Dolma.

The poster stakes everything on what you see: a red panda with reddish-brown fur and a white face, looking straight at you, in her turquoise two-button knit dungaree, her pink-and-red block-pattern sweater, the yellow hood peeking out at the neck, and a beaded necklace in bright colors with its fine gold chain. Nothing else around her. Against the plain gray-green, those four colors leap out and the face is recognizable from the far side of the room. I created it this way, head-on and with no set dressing: on a wall it reads at a glance, up close or from afar.

Behind the print there's a whole character. Dolma is a young red panda girl from the hills of Darjeeling, in the eastern Himalayas, where the species is right at home. She's twelve and has a whole life in my Animal Kinhood series, even if in the poster you only see her head-on, with nothing around her. The matte finish gives no glare, so the turquoise, the pink, and the yellow stay clean on any wall. If you take a liking to this red panda, there's more of her in her biography, and a whole family of characters signed by Yago Partal in the rest of the collection.